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vibing suspects in last week's boston bombings has reportedly admitted he was involved in the blasts which killed three people and left over one hundred injured some u.s. media claims nineteen year old joe hart sanai has denied links to any islamic terrorist group although he indicated hey that target was driven by religious views and led by his older brother more now from seasons the. official complaints in the presence of a judge and a lawyer have been filed against one thousand year old boston bombing suspect just hearts are naive this took place at his hospital bed here in boston where he has been kept under strict guard ever since his arrest friday evening we do know of course that he suffered several serious injuries and was unable to speak for this entire time sunday evening he finally awoke and was able to answer several questions and writing and finally today he was conscious and able to react to the charges being brought against him at his hospital bed these charges of course
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include the use of weapons of mass destruction as well as the malicious destruction of property resulting in death now the penalty that's her knife is now defacing as a death penalty or any term of years behind bars including life he's also facing a fine of up to two hundred fifty thousand dollars we do know of course that his miranda rights were presented to him his right to remain silence as well as his right to an attorney throughout this brief encounter with the judge it we do know that mostly her knife was. not even off the mission of hearing what he was being told he only spoke once when asked whether or not he is able to afford a lawyer and he said no so legal counsel is going to be presented to him for free now what we have going on now is a period of voluntary detention without bail and probable cause hearing for now has been scheduled for may thirtieth it's important to note that earlier there was a lot of discussion surrounding the possibility of trying as
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a as an enemy competent this is something that certain republican lawmakers in the united states were rooting for this is not been the case of course we're talking about a u.s. citizen who became a u.s. citizen last year on september eleventh and has been living in the united states for over a decade since two thousand and two so the enemy combat competent combat. version has been swept off the table we can tell we can obviously confirm that a federal criminal case is ongoing now the older brother to milan thirty nine of twenty six year old to milan of course died in a boston hospital after being taken into custody by police and the f.b.i. has been highly criticized for avoiding to take note of his identity and despite being of church and descend their alleged spend most of the lines in the u.s. after their parents applied for asylum both were read visitors to russia but they didn't stop from raising the alarm of the possible terrorist intentions of the
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older brother and she's going to report on one of the concerns failed to prevent the most tragedy. as the dust settles in the wake of boston bombings the question many ask is why and how could u.s. federal authorities fail to act on the valuable intelligence from two years ago stating that the middle of was radicalized dangerous and quote prepared to join unspecified underground groups that's the information the f.b.i. says they received from the russian government so two years ago the f.b.i. interviewed the guy and reported back to the russians that they found nothing suspicious since then they've apparently failed to monitor the middleman because if they have they probably discovered his you tube page under his own name by the way full of radical content with a playlist titled terrorists so you have intelligence from a foreign government you have the individual openly sharing radical content and yet somehow he's off the radar the fear is the reason the f.b.i.
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dropped the ball on the alleged russian intelligence is that they treated it as soley russia's problem they may have taken the marylands chechen background into consideration and they may have ended up looking at this individual from a more political rather than purely law enforcement point of view this is possible given the history of all the requests and pleas that russia has made in the past with regards to a number of individuals from north caucasus accused of crimes particularly those of chechen background one example yulia moderates who was known as the right hand of the internationally recognized chechen terrorists. just a quick reminder of who was he was killed in two thousand and six. record as a chechen militant leader included in one thousand nine hundred ninety five he and his gang attacked the city of good yarn of took up to one thousand eight hundred residents of that city hostage in a hospital including one hundred fifty children at least one hundred forty people died as a result of that attack also as he gained power in the region stated his objective
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to have all muslim regions in russia break away from the country it was basically a call to start a war on all fronts among his other heinous acts that was to. school hostage crisis in beslan in two thousand and four terror that russia will never forget it left swe hundred and thirty four people dead one hundred eighty six of them children so the right hand of this monster who helped stage all this whore. modify arrives in the us somewhere around the year two thousand settles down in boston by the way and receives political asylum despite russia's pleas to treat him as a clerk criminal at the beginning us federal authorities appealed the boston course decision on granting him asylum then they withdrew their opposition after a number of political heavyweights in the us tuned in to support the chechen militants including former sector of state margaret albright so when questioning u.s. federal authorities reaction to the alleged russian intel on the middle of it is important to keep in mind the mindset perpetuated in the u.s. for many years in favor of the militants in russia and against the russian
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government's actions to stop them new york city's former mayor rudy giuliani spoke to the confusion that many americans had as they learned about the background of these brothers the chechen revolution against russia is an islamic based revolution they want to islamic state in russia. not inherently anti-american right anti russian. but it american i mean and in fact here's the odd part of this if anything we've been i'm not going to say sympathetic with them but we've certainly been critical of putin and how far he's gone in dealing with. so if anything they should they shouldn't have this anger at the united states so given all this maybe maybe this political mindset has prompted authorities in the u.s. to drop the ball on valuable law enforcement intelligence on top of and james professor of sociology at the binghamton university believes the u.s.
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is walking only very say nice when a box of questionable functions elsewhere in the world. the u.s. government is working with extremists today in libya they're working with islamic extremists in syria they have been working in other places with islamic extremists on the one hand they oppose them on the other hand they instrumental lies them and hope they can discard them launch their adversaries undermined and i think this is a very dangerous game that washington's playing an endless case we see the boomerang effect with the terrorists that once allied with the u.s. churn around in point did guns at underbellies tie gets the united states supported the chests nanterre terrorist when they were working against russia when they were
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putting bombs in schools and metros etc they were called freedom fighters. be only one being criticised for controversial choices about who to bug you has agreed to buy courage from rebels in syria so looks to me even functions of the process critics say that you know simply supporting. the u.s. military rushes medics to gun tama as a hunger strike overwhelms campbell forcing bally's feeding of feeding cheap snow talks that washington wants to resolve the crisis. and the head of a british investment international wanted this to keys the illegally buying one hundred million dollars worth of guns from chad the gaming flies of the russian. sixty thousand people have signed an online petition for the u.k.
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to offer asylum to hundreds of afghan interpreters who worked with bush forces during the move shop ration they're being left behind as the army was draws to raise their walls of the taliban who see them as enemy collaborators worker has more now on that flight. it was a dangerous job that required courage but while british forces withdraw the afghan interpreters who made their what possible are being left to fend for themselves rafi worked at camp prince in the helmand province he says he gets regular calls from the taliban is it your group or four. or you are all sent for those you have to be if i catch you then i read you some six hundred fifty interpreters just like rafi remain in afghanistan with no right to settle in the u.k. many of these translators are washing on the frontline so they're working with soldiers and risking their lives in exactly the same way soldiers do wearing the
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uniform or in their combat fatigues following their rules at least twenty to been killed many more horrifically injured that's a danger they knew about when they signed up the danger they didn't know when they signed up was that at the end of that i've been to that ten year i mean both times when you when you finish the job and you've done it right well that's a thank you at the end of that job in this case it's a death threat it's a risk to your life because what's happening now is that as british troops withdraw afghanistan is not a safe place for these people the scene is that as having been seen by the taliban as having collaborated with the enemy and dave in the past year targeted killings of so-called international collaborators by the taliban have doubled according to the un mission in afghanistan last year six hundred ninety eight civilians were killed and three hundred seventy nine were injured in assassination attempts if they do not take the responsibility of saving their lives
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and providing them a peaceful environment. that will mean that they have only used those interpreters and left them. in a position where today their life and their family's life are in danger because of working for the british forces r.t. got in touch with the foreign and commonwealth office who are responsible for the interpreters asylum claims this is the response we've got people who have put their life on the line for the united kingdom will not be abandoned the government has put processes in place to ensure the service given by former interpreters with him forces is taken fully into account if individuals apply for asylum in the u k. the keyword here is individual for the moment it's a case by case basis according to the foreign office to make sure the personal circumstances are recognised case by case the sign of claims can take months even
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years there's no accountability every other nato country that directly employed interpreters as offer them some kind of special program visa program asylum britain's the only country that hasn't is still dragging its feet on this the us a new zealand down norway are among the countries to have publicly pledged to resettle any formally employed afghans who feel their lives are at risk in the u.k. there's also been a precedent interpreters that worked with british forces in iraq were offered asylum automatically i think we are a match of all of these people who are willing to risk their lives to support us and the second one is a programmatic basis which is we will be involved in events overseas in the future and all military clearly will need to have people helping them and who is going to help our military if they realise that they're not going to help themselves senior military and political figures urging the people who work here in the u.k. foreign office to rethink the policy and campaign is gaining momentum over sixty
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thousand people have signed an online petition urging the british foreign secretary to offer a bulk resettlement program while the politicians think it over and here the men that risked their lives to help british forces say that the waiting game is getting deadlier by the day we will be. helping the people but all they see is that reward with the aggression forces in africa. which are so-called the nato forces or by so forces but to every other. of the national. aggression forces and once they leave the people who are endangered and will pay. for the some wrongdoings of the americans will be deodorant interpreters and their families. r.t.
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london. filled the streets saying they feel betrayed they accuse the government of selling them out after brokering a recognition deal with but in pursuit of political profit one of the website. and a gunman trying to hold up a city center shop in western russia leaves six people dead including two teenage girls but he's has had to answer a lot of. modern the struggle for economic supremacy and military domination of asia the u.s. and china are now contesting the moral high ground to beijing's released its latest
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briefing on the human rights situation in america in response to a similar report from washington a reckless foreign policy indiscriminate wiretapping and the raising base riots which are some of the issues of shop or he is an executive chef get reports. after years of swallowing the accusations of violating human rights beijing is fighting back last year the u.s. state department issued its scolding human rights practices report now china held a mirror to washington to the u.s. again accused china of limiting internet freedoms the so-called great firewall of china where beijing has long being under scrutiny for blocking many western websites such as facebook google and you tube but those criticizing china are no saints sounding people and cispa bills to control the internet data have made waves across the atlantic lately and the u.s. government approved interception of private text messages and e-mails for security needs are hardly contributing to online freedom china single party political system
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and lack of democratic elections also came under fire the chinese report made its wife back at america's multi-party system saying that in what seems to be a democratic process it's really not the people but the amount of money spent on complaints which really decide the when is the largest part of the us report was dedicated to human rights as they are today from harsh labor conditions to poor salaries indeed china's status of being the world's factory is nothing new and the cheap labor force concept has long been debated beijing hit back with a scathing claim that in the country where racism and discrimination officially do not exist after american and hispanic employees earn forty percent less than the white population in the united states and that's through the glass ceiling for women who earn a twenty percent smaller salary than men the us report also lashed out at the treatment of prisoners and members of opposition in china contrast that with a country which runs notorious guantanamo prison and the allegations of multiple human rights abuses within its walls with china highlighting full statistics on all
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deaths in u.s. prisons and the use of brutal force against peaceful demonstrators in twenty twelve it is no secret that china has a checkered human rights record but by countering the claims of those who it believes should get its own house in order it is quite clear that beijing no longer wants to see a monopoly in the market of examining human rights. traits that stop in paris cuomo says there's a link between those nations unable right to fund this and those who are opposed to us tries for the united states to talk about human rights it's incredible hypocrisy when you have a massive hunger strike going on in the concentration camp known as guantanamo when the united states has engaged in violating the human rights of the people of libya the people of syria of countless other nations around the world the chinese certainly have a lot to answer for for in terms of their own human rights record but the examples that their report highlights are all not only accurate but very telling we should
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also remember too that the it is the and it states which monopolizes control of international institutions such as amnesty international human rights watch doctors without borders and so forth which act as the arbiters of human rights sitting in judgment of countries whether they are or are not violators i'm not suggesting that there aren't good people who work within some of these organizations or that the organizations themselves don't sometimes do good work but often what you see is those who are deemed as violators of human rights are those who sit on the enemy's list of the united states the united states pretends that it has the option of being the arbiter of truth that is to say whatever the united states determines to be human rights violation is whatever the united states does is not a human rights violation. as china's report warned must hasn't gone time to appear to be guessing was the u.s. military and just punched and imagines to team of doctors to the facility as
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a medical ready if that a wild by an all time hunger strike and stephen is a nutcase every time on a medical corps officer and a former senior adviser to the defines a bomb and says it might not be long before the precious time is lethal. typically people get very sick after about fifty days in which they've not had any food but are taking water so they may be getting very sick and i think there's a fear that a number may die within the next several weeks but all the world medical associations are categorically and ethically against force feeding the reason being is that it in fact disrupts what is most important which is establishing a constructive relationship were poorer with the hunger strikers and being able to discuss the terms of their protest the this is a they if they have it also. really overrides their autonomy which is very
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important in medicine we except that is one of our ethical principles so that by and large most organizations across the world feel that it is not acceptable and in this particular case what it does not help resolve their grievances and help resolve the conflict that we're having between the detainees and the authorities and to government finances and see where i will now be able to fill the conflicts with money from oil exports to the way the union has decided to see that only for the rebels now period transactions will have to be approved by the opposition's national council but investigative journalist will have on down says this in case in this case the e.u. is giving a helping hands to terrorists. it's a blatant lie to say look we are fraid of all is right we are afraid about god but in reality one sees him arming and financing and supporting. in syria the european
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union still officially recognizes the government even though they have an r.v. any ambassador embassy able to airlift and then they don't recognize as a government to these rebels there say they're legitimate representative but that's meaningless in diplomatic and in any law so what they're doing is legalizing. non gang the european union waving the flag. it's madness we in belgium at the moment out are arresting people because they're radicalize muslims who have fled and now and they're on the other hand are foreign minister says we should buy and finance all those are up there is no logic in it it's just complete lunacy germany's pulling out the stops to keep its economy growing with people sensitive to anything seen as a financial planning on the state like immigration which is not
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a twenty year high you come as a failing to the industrial powerhouse in search of jobs and wealth and not only from outside but within it as well one of the reports now from berlin those coming to germany in search of a new life might find one of their biggest challenges in the shape of the german people a bertelsmann foundation poll shows two thirds of people here a few new comers as a burden on society one of those is called schmidt he says he knows families who come from outside of the e.u. as many as five children who live on the state presently. the main performance which you have to bring to stay in germany you have to make children if you have no drop in germany and normal social. if hundred square meters if i have children you get another three thousand euros a month social eight call runs
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a motor scooter hire company in berlin and claims to represent many set at what they see as a free ride given to migrants. if i would live in africa and i hear that when i see that my friend of mine of of mine is already in bali and shows me facebook how he is living then i would say oh well i go to bernie and as soon as possible immigration here is a twenty year high with a further two million expected to arrive within the next three years along with traditional settlers from turkey the bulk of that number will come from within in you as the jobless countries like spain and greece look for better opportunities in the much wealthy in north as the mediterranean situation worsens wealthier countries like germany are a magnet to provide work for their fellow e.u. citizens but even those who weren't even born in germany worry about the influx.
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i came here in one thousand nine hundred four and now there are so many immigrants in germany who are not working not doing anything this leads to problems they live better than those who work. but those in the turkish community insist it's not easy . sometimes having immigrant status is not stickle to get a good job which leads to a lack of prospects and in some cases people turn to crime but this is not the majority how to handle surging immigration numbers or even the perception that they're draining society is going to prove harder for leaders to avoid there's a general election here in just five months peter all of her. the head of the hermitage capital investment fund has been put on an international want to live by a moscow cooled and the arrest warrant was has been issued for william browder the former boss of the late russian law sergei magnitsky who died in prison while being
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held on tax evasion charges he's igor priest cannot share the details with my colleague kevin our. he is suspected of not being around seventy million dollars worth of taxes it is the same case which involved. work for the fund but while he died in prison before a court could make a decision on this case but he was also suspected of taking part in these alleged illegal activities overseen by mr browder but actually now he's been put on the international wanted list in connection to a whole other story he's suspected of illegally purchasing through various criminal schemes around one hundred million dollars worth of shares of russia's energy giant gazprom and under russian war of foreign companies are prohibited from buying the such shares and he's also suspected of trying to infiltrate the company changing things inside including changing its charter one of the reasons behind him being put on the international wanted list is that the previous court hearings were held
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without without him actually there present and the other reason is that the prosecution believes that he could apply pressure on some of the witnesses so well now that he has been put on the list it's logical to expect that the interpol will get involved it's also logical to expect for moscow to ask for his extradition but here there's a problem of the complicated relationship between russia and the u.k. in that sense for instance a former church militant leader of london denied his extradition to russia several times to the same goes for the recently deceased embodies because last you saw it's very unlikely that london will cooperate with moscow in that sense when it comes to william browder but the fact that the man is already on the international wanted list has to mean something stay with us for all your sports news out of the break.
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